Burial-vault.



naitre@ .BROWN "ann .loma VB. BENNETT, ory -naiveAsTEn rENNsYLvANIA, AssIeNoRs To BENNETT, BnowN .mn BENNETT,- xNc., a conronATIoN or nata:

To all ftoi/tom 'it' concern:

l 'Be it known thatl we, DANIEL H. BROWN and JOHN B. BENNETT, citizens ofthe.

, United States, residing-at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of'lennsylvenia, have invented certain new. and useiul Improvements 1n Burial-Vaults, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.'

plastic material, formed in sections and designed to be erectdvand rigidly4 and permanently bound together and sealed at all A'of its joints by the application of a liquid l plastic cement or other. binding material.-

The-objects of our invention .are to pro# duce a sectional vault of the class described that 'may be readily 'transported when in a' knock-down state; and by l'our "novel con struction of interlockingfand .sealing the corners of the. reinforced sections; a ter"the sections are sealed'together the' vault be# comes as vone .piece and is air tight.

With these and other objects in ,viewfour "invention consists 'in certainconstruction and combination of-parts 'asjwillherein; after be-fully described and "claimed, but ,it is fully understood-.that'we 'do notl confine ourselves -to the exact' design as" sliown, as

V .slight changes maj7 bemade in the construc- 'tion and combina-tion ofthe vseveral parts without departing on-tllevspirit 'of the invention. In the accompanying drawings forming part'of this application and in which like f. figures of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all .ofthe views. :-Figure l, is a our noveljoininglof thecornera Fig. 4., is

an enl'arfred sectional view of s 'corner,sho\ving the-Join en'detail.

Referring' to the drawings', 1, indicates'the j bottom section of'- the Avault which is formed with the reinforcing embedded'l materialQ,

and .provided'u on its upper surface with the grooves 3 ,a 3ace'nt tothe. edges thereof.

The side sections 4,' of -thejvault are formed with the reinforcing material 5,0m?

bedded inlike manner, except that-said side "Bu'RIAL-VAUL'T.' v

Y Specification ot Letters Patent. Appneuon inea December 2e, isos. serial no. 469,744.

Our invention relates to a burial-vault of. .that class that is constructed of vitriied Patented. Juiy 5,1910# sections4a`re provided at their ends with the .I

projecting tongues 6, and 7, forming between their adjacent sides the orifice or slotr8, and.

into whlch the end of the reinforcing1na 'terial 5, extends, and the lower edge of said slde' sections is further provided with the tongue), which'is adapted to engage the .grooves 3, in-the upper face of the bottom sectionl, and whlch is of slightly less diam- 'eter to.ati'ord a space for the binding ma.-

'The end sections 10, of the vault are of the. i

same generalj construction` as the side sections 4, except't'hatlthe end tongue 11,.of the end section iS of--k'greater length than the tongue 7 of the e section to allow of'its overlapping it; and the tongue 12, of the end section is shorter 'than the tongue 6, of-

rightangular orifice extending vertically the entire height ofthe corner, and the extending ends of the reinforcing material 5, are therein f contained and are interlaced, the ends of theho'rizontal rods one piece crossing the horizontal rods of piece and enggfagedbythe -verticalA cross rods 1 3, near` the ends of said pieces. 'After the sides 4, endend-sections 10,' are mated 'together and set u'p upon the bottom 1, with their lower tongues 9., in engagement with .the grooves- 3, tlie orifices 8, are filled with'v liquid plastic cement or other'binding material which'. will communicate. with the tongues 9, and .grooves 3, binding 4them togetherand.- also the corners formed bythe ends 10, and-sides 4, thusfsurrounding the interlaced vand4 forcing'material 5, and forming ,a ectly itsgrooves 3, are filled with tbe binding ma- -terial and then pressed mio engagement with the tongue 9,o'n theupper edfres'of the sidesll, and theV ends'l't), thus completing the entire sealing of the vault.

Having thus described 'our invention what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:-

projectingv ends of tbefreilr-z '95 solidcorner and' joining of the sides 'and Vends' withthe'bottoin.

`."` -'l`he top'section 14 of the vault 1s formed exactly lik'e that of the bottom section and the other In a secti'onal burialvaultof the `class clescribed, the' -combination with to bottom,

en d and side sections, said end an side seo-' -iions formed with lmortised ends and pro- .f ends of said interlaced reinforcing material vided with a vertical groove therein, of interl in an intel-lockedrelation with each other.

laced' woven 'reinforcmg material embedded in the body of said end and side sections l 5 and havin its ends extending into said grooves an the ends of one section adapted to engage the end meshes of the reinforce- -ment extending from the adjacent sections, e

and said grooves'adapted to be filled with a 10 binding material to embrace and retain `the In testimony whereof-we aix our signatures 1n presence of tw'o witnesses.

DANIEL H. BROWN.

Witnesses:

WM. J. COULTER, MABEL L. LEFEVRE.

JOHN B.. BENNETT. 

